1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction (by Fetzer, Anita) 3. Situated meaning in context 4. Why a mother's rule is not a law: The role of context in the interpretation of Greek laws (by Moser, Amalia) 5. Fighting words: Hybrid discourse and discourse processes (by Berlin, Lawrence N.) 6. Context and talk in confrontational discourses (by Granato, Luisa) 7. Deixis in context 8. This? No, that! Constructing shared contexts in the conversational dyad (by Jungbluth, Konstanze) 9. "Here is the difference, here is the passion, here is the chance to be part of great change": Strategic context importation in political discourse (by Fetzer, Anita) 10. Context, contrast, and the structure of discourse in Turkish (by Turan, Umit Deniz) 11. Communicative action in context 12. Speech acts in context (by Mey, Jacob L.) 13. How are speech acts situated in context? (by Oishi, Etsuko) 14. Context: An adaptive perspective (by Nyan, Thanh) 15. Subject index 16. Author index